John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I understand that even the threaded export bugs have > started hitting users.
yes you never know which bug turns into a 'real' one. the c-t c-t c-t... report or iconv one didn't help to fix but once we gained the idea from others it was good to have backtraces in hand and some machinery to reproduce... > Frequently used functions have shortcuts, and so breakage in those > functions should be found by keytest quite quickly. This should mean > that one could send a friend an arbitrary snapshot and be somewhat > confident that they notice how cool your latest feature is before they > hit any embarrassing bugs. this is the best part of your engine. the possibility of catching _new_ introduced problems, pointing to the commit and let the developer know while he is still around and feels responsible. pavel btw i was trying to find bug numbers for the first paragraph and i renounced the idea quickly. man, there are already three pages listing of (mostly keytests) crashes fixed. Vincent must have dreams about you! :)
